Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-12399  

A security issue has been found in Firefox versions prior to 63.0, where when a new protocol handler is registered, the API accepts a title argument which can be used to mislead users about which domain is registering the new protocol. This may result in the user approving a protocol handler that they otherwise would not have.

Severity Low

Remote Yes

Type Content spoofing

Description

A security issue has been found in Firefox versions prior to 63.0, where when a new protocol handler is registered, the API accepts a title argument which can be used to mislead users about which domain is registering the new protocol. This may result in the user approving a protocol handler that they otherwise would not have.

AVG-787 firefox 62.0.3-2 63.0-1 Critical Fixed

24 Oct 2018 ASA-201810-14 AVG-787 firefox Critical multiple issues

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-26/#CVE-2018-12399
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1490276